NEONATAL CONCERNS FOR AFRICA

Huge sums of money are spent by the developing countries and international agencies in research training but little progress being made towards technological independence of these countries. This skill-transfer model is expensive and impacts on only very few set of individual foreign students per unit time. We think that this model is becoming obsolete. Hence, if rapid technological growth is desired of these countries, then a new radical model must evolve. At various Nigerian centres and the Department of Bioengineering of Imperial College London, we are trying a new model that would reverse the trend that keeps draining young people from their poor developing countries to the industrialized countries, and leaving their home countries ever more impoverished... We are a research collaboration of Bioengineering, Imperial College London United Kingdom amongst Nigerian University Hospitals equipping young Africans with skills to create local